#like I don't know i feel like a bad Muslim and a bad desi person and a bad queer person

[sitaarein]

Y'all ever just. Feel like complete frauds?

[themarysuep]

Conclusion: The show was incredible and charming and and it focused on family and community-things important to Kamala and South Asians in general. There were pieces of representation I never thought we would get like salaah, nikkah, wudhu, desi wedding, dancing, desi romance with the lead, bollywood talk, a visit to Pakistan. A great balance of culture and religion. There was also Kamala being the ultimate fangirl-which was amazing.

There were great performances and I don't think there were any bad ones. Iman did give a more serious/emotional performance in the last two episodes and I think she's a natural.

The show was BETTER than the comics in a lot of ways. It was definitely the best adaptation considering all the arcs and characters it nailed.

It's ok to be disappointed about things, I am too. But it was action-packed and cool and had great CGI.

The plot did get confusing but I believe this might be because most of us know Kamala's whole history because she's such a new character. So many other characters had decades of history, Kamala doesn't even have 1 decade of history. So people tend to expect too much. It's not possible for things to be perfect.

Yes, I know there were casting flaws (I liked the cast), issues with colorism, a weird djinn twist, too many crystals for a show with no inhumans (i personally liked the crystals they looked cool) etc.

I also loved the finale exploring the bond between two people who share so much and have deep feelings for each other, except one has a support system and the other doesn't. It just took Kamala unconditionally standing with Kamran to remind him that he doesn't have to be alone. She stood with him as a fellow Muslim, brown person and 'enhanced individual', you don't have to see it as bc of their romance.

But it's 100 percent worth watching and deserving of more seasons. WATCH it so they can get numbers. Also stan Carol Danvers.

[somehowmags]

I want context. What do you mean with fantasy racism toward Enderman Quackity(? I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about and now I’m curious

ok so im going to give the most through explanation i can here, please feel free to ask more if you are confused on something or if you want to know more: so fantasy racism is when a work will have a non human race, (for example, the taugel from fire emblem awakening, who are a race of wererabbits), but then will apply in universe discrimination against that race (the taugel people were victims of a genocide, with panne and later her son yarne being the last remaining taugel that we know of). in my experience fantasy racism is very rarely written well. many of the people who write it have a fundamental misunderstanding of how racism works and why it happens, and in some cases when the writer is white, have never experienced racism themselves. in dsmp fanworks, fantasy racism is most often carried out against characters like ranboo, who is canonically a enderman hybrid, or characters like techno or fundy, who are popularly headcanon'd to be shapeshifters or part animal or just anthro characters. it is important to note that all of these characters are played by white men. my problems are these: 1.) the character who is most often shown to be fantasy racist is quackity. this is not present in the source material, and is entirely an invention of fanworks, and is furthermore in bad taste considering he is one of the few people of color on the server. while yes, quackity and the butcher's army are the ones who created the propaganda that referred to techno as a pig, this is not fantasy racism. rather, this is an act of political dehumanization. however, because techno is commonly headcanon'd as a shapeshifter or a piglin or a hybrid, fanworks tend to interpret this as a racist act. i do not think i have to explain why showing a mexican man being "racist" against a white man is inherently problematic. these works go further then that, however, by showing quackity being fantasy racist against ranboo, to the point of violence against him. this has no canon basis. it is done solely to write whump fic for ranboo where quackity hurts him and then tubbo or whoever comforts him. again. ranboo is white. quackity is not. it is fucked up to show one of the few people of color on the smp as a violent, angry bigot, when there is no canonical basis for it. it is purposeful misinterpretation of his character, and it is frankly racist as fuck to apply that dynamic to again, a person of color and two white men. 2.) this is used for whump fics for white characters. whump fics written by white writers, because this fandom and many other fandoms are majorly white. it makes me angry that the pain i go through every day, the pain every person of color goes through, is being used as whump material for a character played by people who will never go through the pain and the hurt of racism, who will never be effected by racism, who will never even have to think about racism if they don't want to. by white writers, for white fans. it is alienating being a person of color in fandom, this fandom especially. the only desi streamer i have ever seen is skeppy. i have never seen a muslim streamer other then myself. this fandom continually sidelines and ignores other nonwhite characters. ponk's lore is referred to as "semi lore". ive never seen eryn on his own in fanart. he is only ever referred to in connection with tommy. tina is ignored constantly. quackity is the only poc streamer on the server who's given an ounce of respect, and yet his character is still misinterpreted like this because white writers want angst for their fave white boys. it fucking hurts. the abundance of fantasy racism works in this fandom only adds to this hurt. and when this is called out, people rarely listen. fandom is hostile to people of color and has been since it first started. what i want people to take away from this is to stop creating these works. stop consuming them. start listening to people of color when they say they are uncomfortable. start putting in the work to undo your own racism.